Presidential Debate: @BigBirdRomney tweets back

One clear loser of the first presidential debate? Big Bird, the tall, feathery Sesame Street character that GOP candidate Mitt Romney suggested he’d eliminate as part of cutting funding to initiatives like PBS, the channel that airs the children’s show. Within moments of the show’s mention in the debate, a Twitter account featuring a forlorn-looking Big Bird surfaced.

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I heard Big Bird would make a heck of a fried chicken. Only problem is too when Big Bird is supported by us and it is not our choice to support him that is a little different. When he is supported by the government Big Bird and his shows have become another liberal establishment that is on the dole. Liberals need to learn if they do not provide a product that is self sufficient that pays for itself and generates income they are moochers. If they need to be subsidized they are not worthy to exist. As it is most Democrat programs take and they never give back. Businesses can not be propped up by the government they are not to big to fail. Because what is happening similar to GM and other propped up businesses they are still failing and about to go bankrupt even with their huge failed stimulus.

A nation of sheep begets a government of wolves and no more truthful words were ever spoken as the republicans are about to regain the government that they used to destroy what was the last great nation on Earth for quick profits. Sheep are easy to train and as long as there is garbage to eat they are simple to keep as pets and will vote as instructed in exchange for a meal of weeds and scraps from the tables of their rich republican keepers.

Usps is self-sufficient... do a web seach. well, apart from retirement benefits but who wants to be middle claas in the new normal of offahoring jobs, which creates revenue shortfalls because there are fewer employed people? ditto for when wages go down... cheap labor will not save this country either... Reagan knew that as well (1947)...

ups and fedex get lots of taxpayer-funded handouts. it takes little time to search and find out these truths.

so let's stop the consescending attitude, "democrat"-anything, and start aeeing the truth.

To the topic of this article, Romney said he would cut subsidies to things such as PBS. Why is the Government supporting this anyway? Also, Mitt smoked Obama in the debate last night. It wasn't even close.

Sesame Street has been on for how long? More than 35 years, because I remember enjoying it as a child. And what does SS teach children? Fundamentals of counting, alphabet/writing, sharing, manners, and all that other stuff.

So... Tell me again why we need to keep funding the show instead of running repeats? It should be the same exact content we're trying to teach our children. Maybe the music and clothing will be out of style, but who cares? Children shouldn't be bothered with those things at such a young age. How does teaching a child to count from 1 to 10 differ from the 1970's to today?

It seems to me that Romney will cut public television funding and fund the likes of Blackwater by any other name -- increasing military spending to profit the Halliburtons of the world at the expense of the American public. This, he seems to say, is worth going into debt to China for. As for Big Bird and PBS -- let them have cake crumbs or just go away.

celticbrewer: " How does teaching a child to count from 1 to 10 differ from the 1970's to today?"........................It doesn't, but the NEA is demanding extra compensation for teaching children the numbers from 5 through 10 these days. THEY should pay for Big Bird doing their job. Think I'm kiddin? Check out the statistics for literacy and graduation for the Chicago schools and remember what the teacher's union there was striking over, and you begin to get the picture.

USPS can't increase prices, it takes the OK of Congress It can't close post offices because some Rep will get upset. For example, there are 33,000 McDonald's WORLDWIDE. There are 31,000 US Post Offices. Do you think we need that many?

There are some great articles on how the USPS has tried to pull itself into the 21st century but due to political wrangling of both the Left and the Right it has been unable.